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...employed as a clerk at a Trans World Airways maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo. The Worldwide Church, founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong, now has some 50,000 U.S. members, who are adjured to follow kosher laws, celebrate Passover (but not Christmas), and strictly observe the Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sunday* TWA tried to accommodate Hardison by changing his schedule, but that eventually brought him into conflict with the seniority system worked out in conjunction with his union, the International Association of Machinists-/.?., employees who had been there longer got first choice on weekend days off. Hardison...
...religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers and employees working out accommodations in such cases (for Sundays as well as Saturdays), but he added that there was no need for the employer to suffer "undue hardship" or to spend more than minimal money and effort in the process...
...Among the U.S. denominations that observe a Saturday Sabbath: Jews, Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day Baptists...
...begins on Friday evening. After you've gotten all your chores out of the way so that you can concentrate on the game you put some psych up music on the stereo--most guys play heavy metal types like Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin but personally I'm fond of the Nutcracker Suite, in fact before one game I danced a makeshift ballet to Mr. Tchaichovsky's classic in my underwear but that's another story--and imagine that you're annihilating your next day's opponent. It's a mystical experience...
...puts it. During Holy Week and throughout the year, many of them attend Mass. But as they go into the church they pray to themselves: "When I enter here I adore neither wood nor stone but only the God of Israel who rules all." Each Friday they light a Sabbath oil lamp, which is hidden inside an earthen pot lest other villagers see it. They prepare a menu consisting only of fish and vegetables because at one time it was dangerous for them to buy kosher meat for the Sabbath; now they consider mainstream Jews sinful because they eat meat...